A text-book on chemistry. For the use of schools and colleges (1866)
Draper, Henry, 1837-1882 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 423
el6, and the ether distilling into the bottle e. The pro-cess is to be stopped as soon as the mixture begins toblacken. The first product may be rectified by redis-tillation from caustic potassa. Ether is a colorless and limpid liquid, of a peculiarodor and hot taste. It boils at 96°, and has not… … frozen; its specific gravity at 60° is .V20. It volatilizeswith rapidity, and therefore produces cold; a drop ofwater covered by ether, upon which a current of air is ^directed, may be frozen. It is combustible, and burns^with the evolution of much more light than alcohol.The specific gravity of…
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